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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Silence is Consent--Edited by Christopher Bogart

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  I have five poems in this anthology, " Silence is Consent. " The editor, Christopher Bogart, called for poets who oppose what...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Women in a Golden State:

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 A poem of mine appears in this just published anthology, "Women in a Golden State: California Poets at 60 and Beyond."  Here is t...
Sunday, October 1, 2023

Good Book, Unfortunate Cover

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I was delighted to have 2 poems published in this book “Wild Crone Wisdom," but the cover drawing disappointed me. As a lifelong, gende...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Life in the Time of Coronavirus...

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The head of the CDC (Center for Disease Control), Dr. Robert Redfield, estimates that one out of four Americans has Covid 19. But, becaus...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

An Unexpected Reprieve

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My taped wound is healing.  They said it was the size of a grapefruit or a small cantaloupe. Why must tumors always invoke fruit? I can ...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Rebuilding a Single Self

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It has been almost nine months since I broke off communication with my partner of twenty years and began building a life of my own. I...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Joyce Schon: My First Long-term Partner

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Joyce Schon (1952-2016) I seem to be standing at a crossroads where past, present and future intersect. Being on the receiving end of a ...
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Joan Annsfire
I am a writer, a poet, a lesbian, a Jew, a political activist, a retired librarian and a citizen of the world.
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